UK’s first big Yves Saint Laurent exhibition brings Paris to Co Durham — theguardian.com

The first major UK exhibition devoted to the design genius of Yves Saint Laurent is coming not to a London museum but to the Bowes Museum, housed in a magnificently improbable French-style chateau purpose-built as a museum in the late 19th century in the small market town of Barnard Castle in County Durham. Style is Eternal, named from a Saint Laurent quotation – “Fashion fades; style is eternal” – is being organised with the designer’s former partner, Pierre Bergé, director of the foundation that manages his estate.

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